Information disclosure in Firefox ESR - CVE-2017-7763

 

Information disclosure in Firefox ESR - CVE-2017-7763

Published: June 15, 2017 / Updated: May 26, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7095
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7763
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Mozilla
Affected software:
Firefox ESR

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The weakness exists due to displaying of some Tibetan characters as whitespace by default fonts on OS X. A remote attacker can use characters in the addressbar as part of an IDN to perform domain name spoofing attacks and read arbitrary files.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information disclosure.

How to mitigate CVE-2017-7763

Update to version 52.2.

Sources